Food inspection guidance: permission issuance

Find operational guidance and supporting documents to be used when conducting inspection activities to support the issuance of a domestic, import or export permission. This includes food and commodity-specific guidance for licensing, export certification, and import admissibility.

Common permission guidance

The following guidance is common to all permission-related inspection tasks

• Standard permissions procedure

Export permission

Food export certification

• Procedure for maintaining food export eligibility lists

Commodity specific export certification

• Introduction to Export certification inspection task tables
• Fresh fruits and vegetables
  • Exemption of red-skinned round type potatoes exported to the United States and Puerto Rico
  • Operational Procedure: Onion Pilot Project for Canadian Partners in Quality Preventive Control Inspection

Import permission

Import admissibility (at border)

• Processing applications for the import (return) of edible meat products that were exported from Canada

Import admissibility (post border)

Food

• Postal and courier import inspections
• CFIA areas designated as the contact for non-resident parties

Commodity specific

Meat products

• Organoleptic evaluation of imported meat products
• Return (import) of exported meat products from the United States, pending the results of US laboratory analysis
• Retention of official meat inspection certificate accompanying meat shipments
• Verification of seal number when foreign seal on shipment broken while in transit
• Visual inspection of imported meat products